Map Festival

Celebrate the wonderful world of maps with a full day of activities.

Ever wondered what secrets lie in a map? Or wanted to go behind the scenes of a major collection? Do you just love maps?

Join us for the Map Festival, a day dedicated to all things cartographic. Discover the amazing maps and aerial photographs held by:

• Edinburgh City Archives

• Historic Environment Scotland

• National Collection of Aerial Photography

• National Library of Scotland

• National Records of Scotland

• University of Edinburgh

This is a hands-on event for everyone. Get a temporary map tattoo, try map-based games and puzzles, or chill with cartographic crafts and colouring.

There will be an opportunity to go behind the scenes to see our map collection first-hand. Or get a selfie with our trig point (replica of the concrete pillars you find on top of mountains).

This is a free drop-in event.

Our programme of bookable talks about some of the amazing maps held by local libraries and archives will be announced shortly.